To ensure student safety and increase awareness of the start of the school year, the Portland Police Bureau will be conducting high visibility patrols around all Portland schools as part of a "Back to School" safety campaign.

To support a safe trip to school, the Transportation Bureau's Safe Routes to School program will provide pedestrian and bicycle safety instruction to thousands of students at schools across the city beginning September 9 and continuing through the school year.

The goals of this partnership are to provide a positive and safe environment for our children to learn and travel to and from school and to provide a safe environment in and around the schools for students, parents, school staff and their neighbors for the start of the 2013-2014 school year.

Beginning this week, many young people will be walking and riding their bicycles to school.*-..

Detectives from the Portland Police Bureau's Missing Persons Unit are asking for the public's help in locating 73-year-old Norris Newman, who went missing on foot from his care facility, located in the 12700 block of Southeast Holgate Street, during the evening on September 3, 2013.

Newman is not his own legal guardian, and suffers from various medical conditions, including mild dementia, which, if left untreated, could endanger his welfare.*-..